Ice Treasure Hunt

It gets hot here in Taiwan. Actually, that’s a bit of an understatement. So when I saw this activity to dig for frozen treasures, I knew that it would be one we would be doing over and over again this summer. We froze the first batch, and then the weather cooled down. Poor Jaylene kept asking if it was hot enough to dig for treasure. Finally I gave in this weekend, although it was just barely warm enough.

We just used plastic spoons and a squirt bottle with warm water for our digging instruments. I didn’t want to go any more high-tech with Jayden. As you can see, he was deliriously happy to be playing with water and ice.

In fact, he was so excited by this project that he couldn’t help but get closer to the action, and much to Jaylene’s delight, climbed right on inside the bucket we were using to contain the melting water.

They were hard at work for a looonnnnggg time (I love this activity!)

Although, Jaylene did take some breaks to squirt her brother under the guise of cleaning the recovered treasure.

Oh ice cube hunting is FUN!!! We do it every summer- the boys love it. You can also use food coloring as you freeze, making rainbow colored layers (kids really enjoy that). Or make each ice block a different color.

Give them some salt and let them pour it on the ice to see how salt melts ice faster….